Reading The eve of St. Agnes
Subtitle: the multiples of complex literary transaction
By: Jack Stillinger.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Keats, John, 1795-1821; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Authors and readers; Canon (Literature)
Other titles: Eve of St. Agnes
Description: "John Keats's "The Eve of St. Agnes" is one of the most admired works in standard English poetry. It has had hundreds of thousands of readers - therefore hundreds of thousands of individual responses - since its first publication in 1820. In Reading "The Eve of St.

Agnes," Jack Stillinger examines the continuous inexhaustibility of this one poem, theorizing about the reading process, the nature and whereabouts of "meaning" in complex works, and the connection between multiple meanings and canonical status in literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177)  and index.